Heh heh. I crack myself up.
My sister Keren sent us an awesome care package! (Get it? I like to over-explain my obvious, mildly amusing jokes.) It was filled with absolutely delightful things. Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 mustard, Sierra Nevada Stout & Stoneground Mustard, a sweet little tape measure that will live in my bag (for all the impromptu measuring I do), two c-clamps so adorably tiny I want Lloyd to wear them like cufflinks, and best of all – a singing frog.
All the things were met with glee as they were removed from the box, but the funniest was the frog. I just thought it was a stuffed animal, but it had a puppet slot in the back, and inside the mouth is a sound chip. It sings “Are you sleeping?” “Old MacDonald” and “London Bridge”. I started to croak the songs for Lloyd and he said, “You’ll never guess what tomorrow’s assignment is in programming. They have to write a program that sings Old MacDonald.” He took it to school for a good intro to the assignment.
Here’s the puppet master in his own words:
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Well, maybe “sing” is too strong a word. It has to ask the user (rhymes with loser) to enter an animal and the sound that the animal makes. Then the program should print out the words to Old McDonald. It’s our second program of the season.
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Lloyd, that is not a good story. It says nothing about the puppet. Tell us how you used the puppet! Um – where’d he go? He’s gone, and probably embarrassed about his awesome puppetry skilz.
Thank you, Keren – you sent a whole box of smiles our way!